Technical Business Analyst

Summary

GoHenry is a London and New York-based fintech company that pioneered the youth fintech and financial education category. We are on a mission to make every kid smart with money and to delight our community of 2 million parents, kids, and teens with innovative, market-leading tools to help parents raise financially healthy kids.

GoHenry offers a debit card and app for kids and teens and companion apps for the family, with in-app tools for sending money, automating allowance, managing chores, setting savings goals, giving to charity, and in-app financial education lessons where kids can watch videos, take quizzes and earn points & badges. This is all designed to help kids and teens build good money habits that will last a lifetime.

The role

We are looking for an experienced and self-driven Technical Business Analyst

The GoHenry Technology team is adding a Technical Business Analyst role focusing on compliance to protect the strategic growth of the business.

The candidate will be responsible for understanding the requirements proposed by cross-functional Product teams and translating those requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications that the engineering team can work with.

The Technical Business Analyst will influence teams in relation to design, technology decisions, timelines and release schedules. The candidate will need to establish close partnerships with all the teams in the business to ensure successful releases.

The candidate will be working closely with the Operations Product Manager to achieve compliance goals and will report to the BA Manager.

Your key responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:

• Work closely with the Product Operations and the Compliance teams to understand past and upcoming mandates as well as regulations, translating them into specifications
• Work with the Product teams and develop a deep understanding of requirements and functionality that they would like to implement
• Write detailed functional and technical specifications that the engineering team can work with. This includes workflow diagrams, database models, API specifications and pseudo-algorithm.
• Research and recommend solutions to the engineering team if necessary
• Proactively follow execution with the engineering team within an agile environment including continuous delivery, quality management and document maintenance.

What we’re looking for

• At least 2 years’ proven experience in writing functional and technical specifications for a B2C web company
• Some knowledge of banking mandates and or regulations
• Have experience in pre-paid card, payment systems or retail banking
• Have a technology background as a developer, preferably back-end (Java, PHP, …)
• Have a very good understanding of back-end, web and mobile app technology in a demanding B2C environment.
• Strong technical skills including SQL, Open API (Swagger or other) and microservice architecture are required.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific functional or technical assignment
• Strong team player, ability to work in cross-functional teams with marketing, product, design, engineering, operations and partners.
• Experience in building scalable and highly available global systems

What we’re offering

• goFlex - flexible working that lets you choose how (& where) you work best (Office / Home a mix of both)
• 33 days of holiday (including public hols).
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Family-friendly leave policies
• Death in service benefit
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
• Westfield Cash Health Plan* (for you and your children)
• Westfield surgery plan after 3 years’ service
• Mental health platform – Open up
• Cycle to work scheme
• Training opportunities to further develop your craft
• Choose your own equipment

We’re proud to say...

● We help over two million members improve their money skills every single day.

● We’re one of Tech Track’s top 50 fastest-growing UK companies.

● We were nominated for ‘Best Personal Finance App’ at the British Bank Awards 2020.

● We were voted 'Best Children's Financial Provider' at the British Bank Awards 2021.

● Our kids and parents have donated over £200,000 of their own money to NSPCC via their GoHenry accounts

● We won the Kids' Cards category of Finder's Customer Satisfaction Awards 2022

But we’re still growing, and that’s why we need you.

GoHenry is an equal-opportunity employer, and we’re on a mission to foster a diverse & inclusive workplace. Individuals seeking employment at GoHenry are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Want to join our mission?

If GoHenry sounds like a place you’d like to be, please apply using the link below.